American voters say 55 - 34 percent that former National Security Agency consultant Edward
Snowden is a whistle-blower rather than a traitor, according to a Quinnipiac University national
poll released today.

This finding is unchanged from a July 10 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-
uh-pe-ack) University.

"Most American voters think positively of Edward Snowden, but that was before he
accepted asylum in Russia," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac
University Polling Institute.

From July 28 - 31, Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,468 registered voters with a margin
of error of +/- 2.6 percentage points. Live interviewers call land lines and cell phones.

The Quinnipiac University Poll, directed by Douglas Schwartz, Ph.D., conducts public
opinion surveys in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Iowa,
Ohio, Virginia and the nation as a public service and for research.

For more information, visit http://www.quinnipiac.edu/polling, call (203) 582-5201, or
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20. Do you regard Edward Snowden, the national security consultant who released information to the media about the phone scanning program, as more of a traitor or more of a whistle-blower?